Clarke Family Tree » Jane Pope (± 1783-1872)

Personal data Jane Pope 

• She was born about 1783 in Thursley, Surry, England.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1785 in Hampshire, England.
• Immigrated on June 18, 1815.
• She died on July 10, 1872 in Windsor, NSW, AU.
• She is buried after July 10, 1872 in Nowland Family Crypt, maybe Windsor, NSW, AU.
• A child of William Pope and Maryann Sturt

Household of Jane Pope

(1) She is married to Henry Greentree.

They got married on May 10, 1802 at Westbourne, Sussex, England.

Child(ren):

1. Reuben Greentree  1803-1881 
2. Henry Greentree  1806-1877
3. Frances Greentree  1808-1815
4. George Greentree  1810-1880 
5. Thomas Greentree  1814-1893 
6. Jane Greentree  1816-1902

(2) She is married to Michael Nowland.

They got married about 1846 at CoE, Wilberforce, NSW, AU.

Notes about Jane Pope

Daphne MacGregor (nee Newton) has a framed charcoal sketch of Granny Nowland hanging in her bedroom. The picture itself is about 40 x 60cm. On the reverse, written at different times by different people as the picture is handed down from mother to daughter, it says:

Granny Nowland about 1850 circa

Wilberforce nr Sydney

Mary Anne Greentree (nee Nowland – daughter)

From Jane Emeline Ezzy (nee Wenban) (granddaughter of above) born 1857 died 1955

To daughter Ruby Jane May Newton (nee Ezzy) Gt Gdtr – Born 1887 Died 1985

at 17 Victoria St

Epping

29 Sept 1949

To Dtr Daphne MacGregor (nee Newton – great-great-Grandaughter) Born 1922

ANDREW MACGREGOR x3 Great Grandmother

GLENDA JOHNSON

HOLLY & ASTRID x4 Great Grandmother

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(written by Philip Greentree, on back of this sketch dated c.1850)

’Granny Nowland’ Actually Jane Nowland, formerly Greentree (nee Pope)

born c.1785 - died 1872

;

Hampshire Wilberforce

married Henry Greentree 1802 Hampshire

Henry transported to NSW, arriving 26-1-1815

Jane followed 5 months later with their 5 children

1. Reuben 2. Francis 3. Henry Jnr. 4. George 5. Thomas.

They moved to Wilberforce in 1816 where their 6th child (Jane Jnr.)

was born. Francis died within a month of arrival!

Henry Greentree Snr. died 1818, leaving Jane alone with 5 children.

Many years later, Jane re-married to Michael Nowland, who was 10 years her junior and died within 11 years, leaving Jane once again a widow. She was buried in the Nowland crypt on her death.

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Her oldest son, Reuben, married Ann Farlow in 1825, they having 8 children - Mary Ann, Robert, Ann, Elizabeth Jane, Maria, Henry, George and Reuben Jnr.

Mary Ann married David Wenban, they settling first at Wilberforce. David Wenban built the historic ’Wisteria House’ at Wilberforce, before the 1867 flood disaster.

After the flood, Wenban sold ’Wisteria House’ to Mary Ann’s brother Robert, who after a year, resold to their youngest brother Reuben Jnr.

The Wenbans moved to Spring Ridge near Orange about 1868 and built their new home there, calling it ’Elmswood’.

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